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PEASTER H S
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 12 points since 2020.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PEASTER H S
PEASTER H S is one of the modestly sized four-year high schools in WEATHERFORD, Texas, part of PEASTER ISD, with 524 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 34% below the state mean of about 796.
PEASTER ISD runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,776 students. PEASTER H S is one of those campuses.
On demographics, PEASTER H S logs that White students make up the majority at 78%; the rest comes out to 18% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.
On the resource side, PEASTER H S logs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
With demographic context factored in, PEASTER H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.8%.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Parker County put median household earnings sit near $104,443, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Parker County's 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,354 students), PEASTER H S is one campus in the mix.
PEASTER J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PEASTER H S comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 43.0%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Five-year trend. PEASTER H S's enrollment has ticked up 56% since 2018, when it stood at 335 (now 524). The White share of enrollment declined from 82% to 78% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 9.9:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.
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